Messing around with partitions can be a somewhat tricky, and dangerous business (especially if you 'forgot' to do that backup before you get started). While there's not a lot you can do to make the concepts easier to understand or reduce the risks, there are several graphical tools for partitioning that can make it a little easier to do.

Finally caving to a Flickr account last night, I was off to go start uploading some pictures. Looking at the Flickr Uploaders page, I saw a Java application that supposedly worked with Linux. After downloading and installing it, all I was able to get were Java errors, even though I had Sun Java 5 and 6 installed. Oh well, it was probably just an error on my part.